Done and subscribed on the yf aforesaid, of the year 1G55, at the place of parole, between fort Christina and the General's encampment. (Signed) Johan Risingh. P. Stuyvesant.

It is further capitulated that the skipper with whom the Hon'''* Governor Johan Risingh and Factor Hendrick Elswyck will depart, shall be expressly ordered and instructed to land said Messrs. Risingh and Elswyck in person, either in England or France, and that the General shall loan Mr. Johan Risingh in cash or in bills of exchange, the sum of three hundred pounds

Flemish, which the said Governor Johan Risingh undertakes to repay in cash or exchange at Amsterdam to the General or his order, within the term of six months after receipt of said moneys. Meanwhile, hypothecating for the moneys aforesaid, an equivalent in the Crown or the Southern Company's effects to be left, under receipt, in the hands of the General; Ady If September, corresponding duplicates hereof, to be made and to be signed on both sides. 1655, on the place of parole, between Fort Christina and the encampment of General Petrus Stuyvesant. (Signed) Johan Risingh. P. Stuyvesant.

Secret Resolution of iJie States General on the preceding [ From the Register of Secret Eesolulions of the States General, In the Royal Archives at the Hague. ]

Friday, SS"* January, 1656. Folio 168. Received a letter from the Directors of the West India Company, Chamber West India Com- , pa"y- at Amsterdam, dated the 24"" instant, and therewith in accordance with their High Mightinesses' iterated letter, a Deduction with the papers and corroborative documents to the Swedes from Deduction relative belonging to the Same, and relating to the Swedes who have come over from NewNeiheriand. New Nctherland. Which being considered, it is resolved and concluded to refer the aforesaid letter, deduction, papers and corroborative documents, to Messrs.